Models/shipped/2026-10-27

Liquid AI releases LFM3, a family of 6 open-weight 2B-class multimodal models

Liquid AI announced the release of LFM3, a new family of open-weight multimodal models. The announcement, primarily made via the Hugging Face blog and echoed by MarkTechPost, details six 2-billion parameter class models designed for specialized multimodal tasks. Community discussions on r/LocalLLaMA further highlighted specific models like LFM3-1.7B and LFM3-Audio-2B, confirming their availability on Hugging Face. Additionally, a pull request to llama.cpp indicates ongoing community integration for video input support, suggesting the models are actively being adopted and used. The core claims regarding the models' release and open-weight status are directly from Liquid AI and its partners.

6 articles from 3 outlets covered this story. The underlying claim is sourced from a shipped.

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3 outlets covered “Liquid AI releases LFM3, a family of 6 open-weight 2B-class multimodal models”. All of them report the following:

  • Liquid AI released LFM3
  • LFM3 is a family of multimodal models
  • There are 6 models in the LFM3 family
  • The models are open-weight
  • The models are 2B-class
  • Models are available on Hugging Face
  • An audio model (LFM3-Audio-2B) is part of the family
  • There is community effort to integrate video input for LFM3

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